On Tue, 31 May 2022 09:18:43 -0500, o1bigtenor wrote in message
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> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 8:46 AM Steve Litt
> <slitt@???> wrote:
> >
> > o1bigtenor via Dng said on Mon, 30 May 2022 17:03:56 -0500
> >
> > >Greetings
> > >
> > >I am investing in a new system.
> > >(Ryzen 7 5800X + Ryzen 570 gpu)
> >
> > You're going to be very, very pleased with your finished product. 16
> > high speed threads can tame the toughest online video chat or
> > javascript-encumbered website.
>
> I am finding that web browsers are quite greedy when its comes to
> system resources - - - especially the cpu but so far it seems like the
> most I'm seeing is maybe 2 cores in use rarely more.

..starve them! No web browser deserve more than 2 to 4 cpu threads
or more than 4GB of ram. I watch youtube videos on Google's chromium
web browser at nice -n 17 at 1920x1200@60Hz on my 2 Dell Precision
M4400 (8GB ram, one has an Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 @ 2.80GHz and the
other a T9400 @ 2.53GHz cpu, both has NVIDIA's G96GLM [Quadro FX 770M]
running the nouveau driver. (I usually prefer youtube at 1280x800,
less stutter in rain, wireless ISP.)

..ok, 4K video games etc might need more, just keep them in qemu etc
vms, no need to let any of that crap crash your hardware. RT, nice
etc is there to help you kill the crap you keep in virtual machines.

> Between most software not using more than a few cores and cost
> was what decided me on this particular proc.
> None of the more core procs run at 3.8 GHz base (I think there is
> a bump up available too on the chosen model) so until a lot of
> programs make use of multi-core I thought it not worth going for
> more cores.

..I'd lean towards more cores rather than higher speeds, you can much
more easily throw things into vms and let them chew thru with a dozen
cpu treads, with 2, virtualization approaches virtual uselessness. ;o)

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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.